Rebecca Mcintosh
Calm, practical support for feeling unstuck
About Rebecca
Rebecca Mcintosh offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck. She speaks plainly and gently, helping clients sort through heavy emotions and make small, useful changes. Her manner is warm and non-judgemental, and she focuses on what a person needs in the moment.
Rebecca uses a person-centred style that keeps the client’s experience at the centre of sessions. She listens closely and adapts each meeting to the individual’s pace and priorities.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to give clarity, reduce overwhelm and create steps that feel doable. She has 12 years of professional experience and has worked with people who identify as neurodivergent and with those living with cancer during her time at Cancer Support. Her background means she is used to tailoring conversations for different ways of thinking and processing.
Her practice covers a wide range of concerns, from stress and anxiety to relationship difficulties, grief, trauma and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar. Rebecca also focuses on issues like attachment, abandonment, body image and substance-related problems. Her approach draws on mindfulness and solution-focused ideas alongside trauma-informed work.
That mix lets sessions include practical exercises, grounding techniques and short-term goal-setting as needed. Rebecca aims to help people feel more able to manage day-to-day life and move toward their goals. Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging.
The arrangement is arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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Sessions & fees
How Rebecca’s approaches work online
Rebecca uses a person-centred or Client-Centred Therapy approach that focuses on listening and responding to each person’s experience. This method helps people feel heard and encourages self-led change by following the client’s pace and priorities.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy, teaching straightforward attention and grounding exercises to reduce overwhelm and soothe anxiety. These techniques are useful for managing strong emotions and staying present during difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Rebecca will discuss preferences, goals and what feels most helpful, then shape sessions collaboratively. Clients and the therapist decide which tools to try and adjust them over time based on how they work.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues and practise exercises together. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a quieter check-in when talking by voice feels easier. Live chat or text-based messaging provides a shorter, ongoing way to reflect between meetings or share quick updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and daily life while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
